History Characters / SplatoonInkopolisAndSplatsville

* BearsAreBadNews: The game tells players that his business seems shady when they enter for the first time. ''Splatoon 3'' reveals him to be a giant bear-like creature made of Fuzzy Ooze, and he's the BigBad of story mode.

* UpliftedAnimal: A grizzly bear that somehow gained enough intelligence to run a company and devise a plan to repopulate mammals on Earth through the use of Fuzzy Ooze and a rocket, and at some point transformed into a gooey AnimalisticAbomination due to the assorted experiments he conducted in Alterna to create Fuzzy Ooze. The secret log states it was because during his 12,000-year cryo-sleep he was conscious enough to dream and develop intelligence over time.

* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "No fan of Calamari Inkantation is a foe of mine", in ''Octo Expansion'', sometimes followed with "I don't see species". Temporarily mutates into "No fan of hip-hop is a foe of mine. I don't see genre" when discussing music with Off The Hook.
** Also, "that's a rule of the battlefield", after giving level-related advice. When Pearl interjects and repeats his catchphrase after he gives apparently-unrelated level advice, he retorts that it's not.

* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Like Judd, he communicates exclusively with meows, yet the Inklings understand him just fine.

* IdiotHair: The Splatsville Zapfish gains a single, standing-straight hair upon its head when it comes back after Return of the Mammalians.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite his hated towards the Octarians, he won't bother attack them if they armless. With exactly what do when he meet Agent 8.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite his hated towards the Octarians, he won't bother attack them if they armless.

* UpliftedAnimal: A grizzly bear that somehow gained enough intelligence to run a company and devise a plan to repopulate mammals on Earth through the use of Fuzzy Ooze and a rocket. The secret log states it was because during his 12,000-year cryo-sleep he was conscious enough to dream and develop intelligence over time.

* LivingMacguffin: The other factions want to steal the Zapfish because of the power they can generate, and so they regularly trade hands before and after the plot of every main campaign.

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* NoOneSeesTheBoss: He's the head of Grizzco Industries, and he's never seen on screen. ''Splatoon 3'' reveals his physical appearance as a really tall grizzly bear.

* GeniusBruiser: He's a grizzly bear who is even larger than normal due to Fuzzy Ooze, and he's more than smart enough to run an entire business.

** Tartar had a massive idealistic view of humanity, though it was flawed by its refusal to accept that they might not have been perfect. By comparison, Mr. Grizz doesn't seem to view humanity as anything special, preferring mammals in general over them.

%%zce* MissionControl: In ''Salmon Run''.

** He's essentially made his employees into this by hiding his true motivations and intent behind collecting Golden Eggs.

* MissionControl: In ''Salmon Run''.

** Tartar had a massive idealistic view of humanity, though it was flawed by its refusal to accept that they might not have been perfect. By comparison, Mr. Grizz doesn’t seem to view humanity as anything special, preferring mammals in general over them.

** Him being an actual bear makes another reference tying in with his businessman theming: a ''bear'' market is one in which the stock market experiences a general decline.

* AnimalisticAbomination: He appears to be a giant blob of the MutagenicGoo found throughout the story mode in the shape of a bear. During the last fight, he liquefies himself to move around the rocket before re-emerging and is able to fire a variety of attacks from his body. The final Alterna Log shows he used to be an ordinary, if not smarter-than-normal bear, and experimenting with Fuzzy Ooze caused him to mutate into his current form.

* AntiVillain: Unlike Commander Tartar, Mr. Grizz is actually very nice and friendly and holds no genuine malice towards marine life, he's just trying to complete the Ark Polaris' mission of preserving (mammalian) life on his own, even if that means wiping out the current reigning species in the process. His sendoff, where he accepts that his kind's time has already passed, is played quite somberly.
* ApocalypseHow: He seeks to inflict a ApocalypseHow/Class4 on all marine life by bathing the Earth in his [[MutagenicGoo Fuzzy Ooze]], turning them all into mammals. Additionally, [[ItsAWonderfulFailure the bad ending cutscene]] implies that the entire global ecosystem was completely destroyed.

* AscendedExtra: Goes from a minor but shady head of Salmon Run's Grizzco to being the BigBad of ''Splatoon 3''.

** While Tartar was first introduced in the DLC he was the BigBad in, Mr. Grizz was introduced an entire game before his role.

** When its motives are introduced, Tartar is just short of ''screaming its head off'' about its goals and how disgusted it is about how Inklings and Octarians have failed as humanity's successor. Mr. Grizz, by contrast, calmly states his goal [[ButForMeItWasTuesday like it's just an average day on the job]], and seemingly [[VillainRespect holds no ill will towards New Agent 3]], in comparison to Tartar with Agent 8.

* DependingOnTheArtist: The final Alterna log portrays him as a much more realistically-proportioned bear, rather than the stuffed teddy look he sports in-game.

* AnimalisticAbomination: He appears to be a giant blob of the MutagenicGoo found throughout the story mode in the shape of a bear. During the last fight, he liquefies himself to move around the rocket before re-emerging and is able to fire a variety of attacks from his body. The final Alterna Log shows he used to be a regular, realistically proportioned bear, and experimenting with fuzzy ooze caused him to mutate into his current form.

* ColdHam: He's perpetually professional and calm, and peppers his dialogue with a good number of business jokes. He is also a grizzly bear the size of a house and is 100% serious despite being a walking HurricaneOfPuns; if anything it makes him ''more'' threatening.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the bad ending of the third game, his rocket succeeds in converting everyone into mammals, but it also destroys the planet's ecosphere by turning half of the planet into a giant mass of fuzz where oceans and landmasses once were.

* AnimalJingoism: He has an AnimalMotif of a grizzly bear and sends the Inklings and Octolings against hordes of mutant salmons, a well-known prey of grizzly bears. ''Splatoon 3'' confirms he is in fact a real grizzly bear (or at least close to one, anyway) and in the final boss fight against him, he ends up fighting the Smallfry buddy, who is turned into a gigantic Hugefry.
* AnimalMotifs: Bears, more specifically grizzly bears. It was initially unknown whether the man himself is a bear, though certain details on the "Ruins of Ark Polaris" map indicate that the idea wasn't as farfetched as it would originally seem... And then ''Splatoon 3'' came around confirming this. He's an honest-to-god, 10-foot-tall grizzly bear.

* BearsAreBadNews: The game tells players that his business seems shady when they enter for the first time. ''Splatoon 3'' reveals him to be an absolutely ''enormous'' grizzly bear, and he's the BigBad of story mode.

* CloningBlues: He's a clone of Judd, and the game's [[https://splatoonus.tumblr.com/post/183462046683/the-squid-research-lab-has-compiled-this official relationship chart]] reveals his... feelings on the matter. ''Splatoon 3'' takes it further by [[spoiler:having him plot to kill Judd.]]

** In its final moments, Tartar is dismayed at its loss, and the only consolation it gets is that it will soon reunite with his creator in the afterlife, taking its hatred for the Inklings and Octarians with it. Mr. Grizz, meanwhile, realizes that mammals will never rule Earth again and [[GracefulLoser calmly accepts his impending defeat]].